I was sent an interesting e-mail. I checked out the statistics and they seem to be true. You be the judge...Regardless of where you stand on the issue of the U.S. involvement in Iraq, here's a sobering statistic.
There has been a monthly average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theatre of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2,867 deaths.
That gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.
The firearm death rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000 persons for the same period. That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in the U.S. Capital than you are in Iraq.
Conclusion: The U.S. should pull out of Washington.
Respectfully,
THE NAPALM
2 comments:
Good perspective. How can we find what the death rate per person in Los Angeles? And of that number, which of course is going to be high, results from Illegal immigrants?
YAWN! Wow, this blog suddenly got real boring without me involved.
Wake me up when you start writing something with a little more importance.
-The sleepy gardner
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